It’s natural to have attacks of self-doubt. Starting an internet business is a big responsibility and you’re very much on your own (unless being part of sites like this one!). Here are 10 common worries and how to overcome them.

1. Im not smart enough - well actually sometimes you can be too bright to success. Innocence and naivety can actually protect you from fear. It is possible to think to much!

2. Im not pushy enough - do you like doing business with pushy people or do you prefer nice reasonable people? Pushy people are often less successful than you might think.

3. Im not rich enough - one of the best ways to watch your costs is to have no money to waste. Wealthy people can be careless with money.

4. Im not good at maths - relax, spreadsheets and accounting software make the numbers and example easy to work out. Remember that success is as much about instinct as arithmetic.

5. I cant spell - Literacy is great if you want to write books or articles. My own downfall when typing fast, is my spelling leaves a lot to be desired. Use document templates. Get an email or sample email or letter which works, has been checked and copy and paste it as needed.

6. I’ll fail - maybe you will, but maybe tomorrow is the day, when a massive promoter joins you business or you clinch that important promotional tool. You wont make a million if you dont try.

7. Rivals and competition will eat me alive - In fact its usually the opposite. Young, rival, small businesses such as ours can duck and weave beneath all the fists of the money grabbing big hitters. Sure, there is competition here iwith HHnet…but we all have an equal chance, and we are leaders being here now!

8. I’m naturally pessimistic - so you wont make false assumptions and step in to the dark without a torch will you! A glance at the downside puts the upside in perspective - just try to see both sides of things.

9. I dont like taking risks - Theres always a choice and many successful businesses often do take some risks. Make sure they are calculated and that you dont lose everything if it doesnt work out.

10. I know my failings - we all know what we’re good or bad at. We always underestimate the value of our strengths as worrying tends us to think more about what we cant do. No one is perfect and even the most successful recruiters arent! Thats why theres room for all of us together. Focus on what you do well.

Final note…Try to see through marketing hype when assessing a business and avoid jumping from one opportunity to another. We can do this constantly for many years and get nowhere. Pick a business or two, work with it ..stick with it!

You are the key to the success of your business. Your personal strengths and weaknesses will quickly become magnified in your business. However, remember, nobody is perfect!

(We all have weaknesses, but they can be managed or even overcome! e.g My own weakness was/is speaking in public. The idea of doing this would terrify me even only 2 years ago, but here i am now hosting monthly offline meetings to rooms of prospects! I still am weak in this area, and still dont like telephoning people or speaking in conferences online!) The most nervous public speaker i have ever heard is Richard Branson. Point is, weaknesses are the flip sides of our greatest strengths. You probably have an idea of what your own are. Being honest about this can be quite hard. Personal Weaknesses usually fall into 3 categories :

Assertiveness
Time Management
Ability to Listen

Assertiveness
This is about a deep seated belief in what you’re doing and putting that accross to people without being a tyrant! Confidence is important. This is the magic elixir of success. Even world economies are run by confidence in the markets! Its the belief that you CAN succeed and putting it across to others that they can too! It’s not genetic. It’s a skill thats learned. We’re not born with it. Keep you self belief topped up, recover from pitfalls, and you’ll find your confidence soaring!

Don’t Undersell yourself! Never give in with pitches, or negotiations, or get taken for a ride by others. As your networking experience grows, so too will your ability to sniff out a good deal like HHnet or bad one like all the egold programs out there! Assertiveness comes with experience and you dont have to be in networking for 10 years for that to happen. It can happen in a day by attending an assertiveness course. There are loads around the country with very good speakers and normally are quite inexpensive.

Time Management
“I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound as they go flying past me as i miss them” (quote by Douglas Adams)

I always think time management sounds fussy and trivial. It conjours up images of filling in forms and tracking and spreadsheets. Well….time is the stuff life is made from! Your time is important. Most people find that they spend 20% of time doing stuff that adds 80% of business value. The other 80% of your time may not produce any result whatsoever, but you still spent time doing it! This is especially true online, where its easy to get distracted, click on an interesting banner or link, or find yourself on a webpage you had no idea you wanted to be on 5 minutes ago! Time online can affect jobs, it can affect relationships offline and on, and of course theres more important things in life than our computers, such as family, friends and love.

Stick to work schedules. Only work on what you came online to do. Give yourself a break. Be a little easier on yourself. Manage your time by watching your time online and how it affects things offline, bad and good. (from your poor little neglected pet to your bulging bank account!)

The Ability to Listen
This is the heart of selling or pitching something. Theres no point in pushing your opportunity on someone and ignoring them when they try to do the same. Networking is about being 2 way. It doesnt necessarily mean you have to promote the other person’s opportunity , but at least look at it or join it. The most important skill is being able to find out what your prospect wants. They may say, “I want to be social on HHnet, but i’m not sure about being an ambassador”. So you can introduce them here, but why go into too much detail about being an ambassador…the prospect has said he/she wants to be a free member?! You’ll still get the credit for the introduction. Learn to be a listener. Opportunity knocks quietly at your door sometimes, and you need an ear to the ground.

Dealing with Failure

Being an Entrepreneur is about dealing with failure too! It’s an inevitable part of the creative process. However in most countries…failure is a dirty word. Failure conjours images of being downhearted, no money, no friends, no work, etc. Richard Branson failed at launching a newspaper and family planning clinics. His first true success came LATER with his music business!

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we do fall” Quote by Confucius

A common email i get is “I joined this or that and was really enthusiatic at the start but I’m struggling to promote to others and think maybe its not for me. Can you help or should i give up?”….My response is ALWAYS to point them here to some free help and training and my natural response is always to shout…DONT GIVE UP! You CAN make it! However, clearly something isnt right and its time to take stock.

1. Failing? Take Stock.
By this I mean, take a step back. Why arent people joining? Why dont they have the enthusiasm you have? You have to face it, deal with it and try to fix it. Time for a different welcome email or time to try out a different form of personal contact with your prospects. Are you even contacting them? THE single best way to take stock in your business, is to ask others in the same sort of field….by this I mean here on the forum. Its about trying things…if they dont work…move on. Dont dwell on failure.

There may be times when you’ve pitched people and you feel like youve failed because maybe its the 3rd person who said no. Business (and HHnet) may not be for everyone. You have to accept that and move on. Learn to pat yourself on the back 10 times over for each person you DO get to sign up. Make them count! Work with them. Contact them. If they dont reply, well at least you tried. Set realistic goals in that you’ll sign up 1 person in every 10 people you speak to for example. It’s the drip, drip , drip of negative feedback that causes failure and you need to make sure you immerse yourself in the positive areas, positive feedback, your active members , your actual success in signing up others. (even if its one person!)

I myself spectacularly failed when i opened up a small shop a few years back. I just didnt appreciate the location and how quiet it would be and the nature of the business was very much offline, so i couldnt expand online. I failed, admitted that I gave it my best shot, counted what little money i had left, and moved on to other things. It’s the ONLY way forward and not worth dwelling on. I openly admit to failure, becuase for every occassion you fail, theres success waiting around the corner, and the old phrase is correct,….”you can only go upwards!”. Hope you found this helpful.

Failings in Business. They DO happen. Hopefully you’re failures will be small ones.

There is 1 man, i’ve looked up to in the world of MLM.
Tim Sales, a Retired MLM Millionaire.

His excellent free website http://www.firstclassmlm.com/
is the most comprehensive guide i’ve seen to MLM, explaining all about it, the pitfalls, mistakes people make and how to get on the path for success!
There are several amazing videos which have me glued each time i see them, and diagrams illustrating all you’ll ever need to learn more about marketing on and offline.

You need a coffee for this website and some spare time. It’s an excellent read and well worth bookmarking.

This is something to get excited about if you have a little spare time every day. It will certainly help you get some extra pocket money. I’ve made $30 last night and the same again today. Its unique and i’ve never seen anything like it before. Good little earner to give us some money to promote our main ops. (and its free to join!)
http://www.adflasher.net/?paulvev

Read this first!
Here is a way that you can make $15.00 per HOUR by simply clicking on ads. I just did this .This is not your standard fly by night, run of the mill, surf site where your money gets tied up for weeks or even months.

Read this carefully. The name of this company is AdFlasher.net and they started in August.

One of the payment processors they use is PayPal. I received word from my upline that PayPal is familiar with AdFlasher.net and they gave them their approval to use PayPal’s services. We all know that PayPal is very selective. You also may also use AlertPay and Liberty Reserve.
http://www.adflasher.net/?paulvev

In a nutshell, here’s how it works…
1.) You register on the site at no cost. Yes..its FREE. I suggest you don’t use AOL - you need to be able to RECEIVE their confirmation email. AOL is good about not letting that happen.
2.) Login and COMPLETE your profile. Use your Free ad packs or
3.) Purchase a minimum of $15.00 worth of “View Packs” using one of their processors.
4.) Then click on “Ad Viewer”
5.) A full page screen will come up with 54 boxes on it that looks like 54 classified ads.
6.) A yellow highlight will randomly light up the boxes flashing all over the page.
7.) Once you see a 4 second timer appear in one of the boxes click on that box and a full page ad will appear. (Sometimes you have to double click)
8.) Let the ad fully load and stay on that page/ad for just 4 – 5 seconds.
9.) Then click on “Close” in the upper right hand corner of the ad and repeat the process.
10.) Each time you complete this process 2 – 3 times you will receive .30 cents. The system goes pretty fast but it’s easy to do. I did this this AM for 2 hours and turned my $15.00 into $30.00

The minimum that you can withdraw is $30.00, so tomorrow I will re-spend my $30.00 back into “View Packs” and turn that into $60.00. I will then withdraw and repeat the process again and again. This will average
out to $15.00 per hour.

If you this just 2 hours a day, you can make $210.00 per week or $840.00 per month.
If you do this 4 hours a day, you can make $420.00 per week or $1680.00 per month.

If you can click more then you can make more!
It is up to you! It sure pays more than watching TV.
http://www.adflasher.net/?paulvev

Last comment : There’s been SO many people joining this week that their server is currently being stretched and a little slow. Frustrating as this is, they’re in the middle of moving it to faster ones. You can still register, join and take part meantime. Not a main programme, but a pocket filler nonetheless.

I noticed this evening that the referral link for Hello Hello is really long.
e.g http://social.hellohello.net/index.php?page=join&ref_id=paulvev
which one of my contacts is going to remember THAT when i’m telling them about HHnet?!

Tha answer is creating a shorter domain. You can do this for free at sites such as http://www.bravenet.com although you’ll get a short domain with numbers and random letters. Alternatively, why not create a more memorable domain name by choosing one yourself. For example , i point my Hello Hello referral long URl to :
http://www.helloprospects.com
which is far easier to remember for my leads and for me!
This cost me £20 for 2 years at http://www.simplynames.co.uk However, you can get a .co.uk or local domain name for only £6 there for 2 years. If you need help with this, just let me know. I’ll be happy to help you set up your forwarding address.